"The specter of Karl Rove under the "klieglights" would be political poison to Bush -
and to the GOP. So he's digging in. And the hole could
get a lot deeper."
--Andrew Sullivan, "top" Bush cheerleader for years,Link

"After telling a bunch of different stories
about why they fired the U.S. Attorneys, the American people deserve a straight
answer. If Karl Rove plans to tell the truth, he has nothing to fear from being under
oath like any other witness."
-- Harry Reid (D-NV), talking like he has a pair - Does he? tpmmuckraker.com

Excerpt:What might the Democrats find if "the Bushies"
testify openly and under oath?

There is nothing as corrupt as using the governmental
powers of law enforcement, to selectively prosecuteyour political enemies and to cover-up criminal
behavior by your political organization and allies, while in aposition of political power. This situation is
the essence of the current scandal concerning the firing of U.S.Attorneys by the Bush White House.

Criminal investigations of Republican politicians
are slowed to a snail pace by politicized appointees incase after case like the New Hampshire phone
jamming scandal.

The federal prosecutor who convicted Duke Cunningham
for corruption was unjustly fired. The federalprosecutor who would not prosecute phony vote
fraud charges against Democrats in New Mexico,in time for the 2006 elections as demanded by
Republican politicians, was fired.

In 2005, a federal prosecutor investigating criminal
charges surrounding the staff of Bob Ehrlich was fired.The investigation was derailed. This pattern
of abuses repeats itself over and over again in state after state.

"My son was killed in Iraq. His name is Captain
Kevin Landeck. You took him away from us. This war is wrong. Because of your ineptness...I
have lost my son, my pride and joy, my hero! You will never understand what the families
of soldiers are going through and don't try to tell me you do. My wife, my daughter and I cannot believe
we have lost our only son and brother to a ridiculous political war."
-- Richard Landeck, of Wheaton, IL in a letter to Dubya, chicagotribune.com

Excerpt:A defiant Monkey warned Democrats Tuesday to
accept his offer to have top aides speak about the firingsof federal prosecutors only privately and
not under oath, or risk a constitutional showdown from whichhe would not back down.

Our insane president is at the lowest point in
his careerand he wants a public squabble that could drag
him into the teens?

Democrats' response was swift and firm: They said
they would start authorizing subpoenasas soon as Wednesday for the White House aides.

<Bart faints...>

"Testimony should be on the record and under oath.
That's the formula for true accountability,"said Patrick Leahy (D-ThereisaGod), D-Vt., chairman
of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Bush, in a late-afternoon statement, said he would
fight any subpoena effort in court.

"We will not go along with a partisan fishing
expedition aimed at honorable public servants," he said."It will be regrettable if they choose to head
down the partisan road of issuing subpoenas anddemanding show trials when I have agreed to make
key White House officials and documents available."

The only way Bush can win is if the Democrats fold.
The Democrats have the majority of the public with them.
Whatever Bush does, all the senate has to do is call his bluff.

He's got nowhere to go - even if the Supreme Court backs him up,
he'll lose more of that 30 percent who has stayed with him up till
now.

The BFEE must be hiding some
serious crimes if THIS is the hill Bush wants to end
on.

...and I pity the 21 senate Republicans who are up for re-election in
2008.

"We have been on the air now for this new season
five weeks. Three out of the five weeks, there's been a Bush scandal. Scooter
Libby, Walter Reed, now Alberto Gonzales. It's not me. I don't have it out for
this guy." -- Bill Maher, on the U.S.
Attorneys Scandal,

Bush is offering to let his maid Harriet and his crooked brain Karl
talk to congress
IF it's without being under oath and behind closed doors.

CNN says the Democrats are "huddling" to see how they might respond.
I suggest they respond with a giant, "Fuck
that."

This is where the Demo-cowards really need me.

First, they should tell Bush to GFY and tell him to shove
his offer.
They should demand that Miers and Rove show up to be sworn in or face
the subpoenas.

NOBODY will give the Bush bastards the benefit of the doubt on this
one.
They lied and lied and lied and now they want to talk
without being under oath
so they can lie and lie and lie without any penalty?
No fucking way!

Then they should start the taunting.

"Why can't the Bush administration tell us
what happened under oath? What do they have to hide that they
can't be sworn in? Clinton had to be sworn in and his
testimony was shown on TV again and again and that was about his personal life -
not the crimes committed in our name with our money. What do the Bush bastards have to hide?
Why can't they just tell us the truth under oath?"

It's so easy!!

Third graders do it every day - why can't the Democrats figure anything
out?

It's so easy!!

Just keep repeating "What do they have
to hide?Why can't they be under oath when they tell
us what happened?Are they refusing because they plan to lie
to us again?"

It's so easy!!

Another thing: No pre-conditions.

None of this bullshit where "You can ask about
this
but you can't ask about that."

Screw you - this will be as wide open as Kenneth Starr's witchhunt.

It's so easy!!

If Bush refuses just remember that time is on OUR side.
Every day, for weeks and weeks, just keep repeating "What
do they have to hide?Why can't they be under oath when they tell
us what happened?Are they refusing because they plan to lie
to us again?"

It's so easy!!

Bush will claim "Executive privilege," but who will buy that?
Even if it meets the standards for EP, everyone will assume Bush is
just lying again.

It's so easy!!

Will the Democrats cave in?Like they've done hundreds of
times before?

Or will they stand up and do their damn jobs and
slap the most unpopular politician in modern history?

Hey hey Bartcop! I'm Anthony mailing in from Malm-,
Sweden - I just wanted to saya huge "Tack så mycket" (thank you) for
what you're doing. I check out your site everydayto keep myself updated on what is going on with
The Bush Crime Family and the problems they've caused.

And eventhough I live in Sweden, I can still smell
the filth and stench of his braindead zombie supporters,like Bill Orally, Sean Insannity, Michael "Kill
100 Million Muslims" Hitler-Savage, The Pig Man Limbaugh- to quote the great Mike Malloy; Have I mentioned
yet tonight how much I hate these people?

Anyhow, thanks for all you're doing at Bartcop
- these issues really have everything. :) Anthony

Anthony, great to hear from you.
And you're doing the right thing listening to Mike Malloy.

Excerpt:If an American soldier were caught slipping obscure
military paperwork to Iranian spies, he would be arrested, pilloried in the news media
and tossed into prison for years.

But in fact there's an American who has provided
services of incalculably greater value to Iran in recent years. So you have to wonder:
Is Dick Cheney an Iranian mole?

Consider that the Bush administration's first
major military intervention was to overthrow Afghanistan's Taliban regime, Iran's bitter foe
to the east. Then the administration toppled Iran's even worse enemy to the west, the Saddam
Hussein regime in Iraq.

You really think that's just a coincidence? That
of all 193 nations in the world,we just happen to topple the two neighboring
regimes that Iran despises?

If Iran's ayatollahs had written the script, they
couldn't have done better....

Excerpt:Bush's "irrational" consideration of a "surge"
in the wake of the Iraq Study Group report has begun togenerate speculation regarding his sanity. References
to Bush's "delusions" have appeared in themainstream media and throughout the blogosphere.

Bush has a Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
What this means, is that he has rather desperate insecuritiesabout himself, and compensates by constructing
a grandiose self-image. Most of his relationships are eithermirroring relationships -- people who flatter
him and reinforce his grandiosity -- or idealized self-objects-- people that he himself thinks a lot of, and
hence feels flattered by his association with them. Some likelyperform both functions. Hence his weakness for
sycophants like Harriet Miers, and Dick Cheney.

Bush knows he isn't a great intellect, and compensates
by dismissing the value of intellect altogether.Hence his disses of Gore's bookishness, and any
other intellectual that isn't flattering him. Bush knowsthat his greatest personal strength is projecting
personal affability, and tries to utilize it even in the mostinappropriate settings. That's why he gives impromptu
backrubs to the German Chancellor in a diplomaticmeeting -- he's insecure intellectually, and
tries to make everyone into a "buddy" so he can feel more secure.

Why is it we keep hearing that the Sudan "offered
Osama to Clinton" -- even though this isn't true(according to the Big Dog himself ), this claim
has even made it into college classrooms -- but no oneever seems to care that the Taliban came close
to offering Osama to Bush (they just asked for a smidgenof proof that he was behind 9/11)?

Could it be that the right-wing noise machine
wants to take the heat off Bush for screwing up,so they claim Clinton did it first?

BTW, did anyone ever hear the story of bin Laden
being offered up to Clinton before Bush rejected the Taliban's offer (10/14/01)? Russ

The way I remember it, th Sudan offered Osama to Clinton, Clinton asked
the FBI and CIA
if they had enough evidence to say Osama was guilty of crimes against
the US and they said no.

"Obama is surging in the polls, according to
a new Rasmussen Reports survey. He has gained seven points on Hillary over the past
week, cutting her lead to just five points, 35% to 30%. John Edwards comes in third with 11%.
"
-- Political Wire.com

All the Dems have to do is attach items to the
Iraq funding bill that puts the oppositionin a bind if they vote against it. What do these
idiots do instead?They try and bribe votes with payola for projects
in the law-maker's district.

So instead of being smart about it and putting
the Repubs between a rock and a hard placethey try to "nicey" them into voting. In addition
this approach encourages local pork at theexpense of the good of the nation as a whole.
Arrrgh!

War Bill
Includes Tempting ProjectsDemocrats' Tactic Poses Dilemma for Some Lawmakers

Excerpt:Bush is refusing to allow Karl Rove and Harriet
Miers to testify before Congress. The reason they say,is that there is executive privilege and the
fact that there is no precedent for it. This is a baldfaced lie:

According to the Congressional Research Service,
under Clinton, 31 of his top aides testified on 47different occasions. The aides who testified
included some of Clinton's closest advisors.

Clinton could have fought these appearances all
the way to the Supreme Court.The reason he didn't was simple: He had
nothing to hide.

Excerpt:For US troops from 9th Cavalry Regiment bumping
around the streets of Baghdad in Humvees after dark, news that their deployment in Iraq could be extended
fell like a hammer blow. Their commanders had cautioned that their second one-year tour due
to end in October could be prolonged while Bush later warned troops it was too soon to "pack up and
go home". The expletives during the four-hour night patrol turned the air in the Humvee, already thick with
cigarette smoke, a dark shade of blue. "We just want to get out of here as soon as
possible," said one commander in a printable comment.

Subject: the afterlife?

Bart, you wrote:

>People believe the insane idea that there's
an afterlife because their parents do.

Just as there is no proof that there is an after
life, there is no proof that there isn't.

The correct answer is C, we just don't know, can't
say for sure. Sharon

But parents don't say, "We
just don't know, can't say for sure."They say, "You're
going to Heaven when you die."

Excerpt:They - Bush & Co. - did 9/11 themselves.They killed Paul Wellstone.They sent the anthrax.They lied about WMD.They stole two presidential elections.They would never have told us about Abu Ghraib.They have secret torture prisons around the world
that we were never meant to find out about.They spy on us. And not because of "terrorism."They steal the oil.They want power. They want to be rich.

Excerpt:A New
York Post article seems to suggest that conservatives at the CPAC
meeting in Washington wereless concerned about Rudy's moderate social views
than they were about him wearing a dress years ago:Rudy's liberal stance on abortion, guns and gays
wasn't his biggest problem yesterday as he addresseda conference of conservative activists - it was
his having dressed in drag.

A whisper campaign targeting the front-running
GOP White House contender's cross-dressing stunts atpolitical dinners in New York and on "Saturday
Night Live" was the hot topic among right-leaning activists.

"A lot of people are talking about it. It's not
respectable. It highlights his other shortcomings,"Las Vegas conservative Bruce Feher told The Whore
Post.

Bush can live with that,
because Iraq's oil wells have
no metersand his front company is moving
to Dubai.

Bloomberg News says Iraq is currently pumping 2M barrels a day.
A.
How would they know?
They don't have people on the ground over there, and even if they did
oil wells have no metersB.
2M barrels is $120M a day - where's that money going?

While driving yesterday, I had 4 hours to think about this and it hit
me like a bolt of lightning.

If
she wins, I'll be held responsible for every mistake
she makes.

Crap like this?

"Hillary is noncommittal/ refuses to take a
stand on gays in the military. Faggots are good enough to die in this
clusterfuck as long as they keep their mouths shut about being queer. Does
this sound like leadership to you?"

Not sure how that's my fault,
but I'm the one who ends up catching the shit for it.

Excerpt:"How well can Obama really do in the Southern,
Red States?": It's what Democrats,unsure of how to cast their primary vote, have
been saying under their breath.

Yesterday, those Dems got some answers when Obama
charmed a rally in Oklahoma,one of the reddest states in America. 1,000 people
came out to support Obama in OKC.Just as surprising, Obama's biggest selling point
for Oklahomans was his stance against the war.

Historically very Republican, Oklahoma gave Bush
a landslide in 2000. And again in 2004.Even in 1996, when everyone loved Clinton, craggy
old Bob Dole got 49 percent, Clinton 40.Obama did better yesterday than any might have
predicted - perhaps even Obama's own campaign.

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